Neatorama » domino http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Christmas “Carol of the Bells” Played With Dominoes http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/28/christmas-carol-of-the-bells-played-with-dominoes/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/28/christmas-carol-of-the-bells-played-with-dominoes/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:53:48 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/?p=28486

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Jared Lyon is engaged in an ongoing project to find innovative ways of using falling dominoes. The project is called “Dominoes Everywhere”, and for the Christmas holidays, he performed the “Carol of the Bells” by placing bells at particular intervals between falling dominoes.

via Ace of Spades HQ | Lyon’s Blog

]]> http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/28/christmas-carol-of-the-bells-played-with-dominoes/feed/ 3 Going for the Mattress Dominoes Record http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/going-for-the-mattress-dominoes-record/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/going-for-the-mattress-dominoes-record/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:39:28 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/going-for-the-mattress-dominoes-record/

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Forty-one people gathered at a Bensons for Beds furniture warehouse in Tewkesbury, UK to break the mattress dominoes record. That means leaning on an upright mattress and then falling over backwards, causing someone behind you on a mattress to fall over backwards, and so on.

Link via The Corner

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Behold, the Beer Bottle Dominoes. Apparently, this is what Danes do for fun in Denmark: Link [embedded YouTube clip]

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If you feel you have too much spare time on your hands, you can always kill a couple of minutes by learning how to balance 17 dominoes on one upright domino.

Link – via Digg

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